AV Program Manager

Lyft; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Mental health benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Lyft credits

Hybrid in-office schedule

Job summary

Lyft is seeking an AV Program Manager to drive the cross-functional operating plan for Flexdrive, preparing autonomous vehicle fleets for scale domestically and abroad. You will manage timelines, RAID logs, and dependencies while coordinating with Operations, Strategy, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Analytics, and People.

You will help sequence hiring, training, and certification before vehicle arrivals and report progress to leadership, with a hybrid in-office schedule in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in program management, business operations, or related cross-functional roles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for updates to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with tracking timelines, risks, and dependencies.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-moving, evolving environments.
• Strong relationship-building skills to coordinate working groups and resolve conflicts.

Responsibilities

• Program Planning & Execution: maintain plan and oversee multi-workstream deliverables.
• Maintain program timeline and dependencies across workstreams: Planning, Infrastructure, Analytics, People, Fleet Ops, Treasury, Finance, Legal.
• Maintain RAID log and surface blockers with escalation context.
• Support leadership syncs and monthly deep-dives: prep, presentation, follow-through.
• Translate partner decisions into operational requirements and update readiness roadmap.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: align infrastructure timelines with hiring and capital deployment.
• Act as central hub across teams; escalate issues with context and drive resolution.
• Coordinate with People and Operations on hiring, training, and certification before vehicle arrivals.
• Work with FP&A and Treasury to track capital spend and flag variances.
• Stakeholder Communication & Reporting: deliver clear status reports to leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain market readiness scorecards and program documentation (logs, notes, trackers).
• Process Support & Operational Excellence: design PM operating model for AV readiness.
• Identify process improvements and build repeatable playbooks for market readiness.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Job description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Flexdrive, Lyft's wholly-owned fleet management subsidiary, is undergoing a transformational shift from traditional rideshare fleet operations to autonomous vehicle fleet ownership and operations. We are seeking an AV Program Manager to help drive the cross-functional operating plan that will prepare Flexdrive to receive, staff, and operate AV fleets at scale domestically and abroad.

This role supports the operational backbone of Flexdrive's AV readiness initiative. You will maintain the program timeline, coordinate cross-functional workstreams spanning infrastructure, people, fleet operations, treasury, legal, and finance, and help ensure that requirements are tracked, dependencies are surfaced, and deployment milestones are met. You will work closely with workstream leads across Operations, Strategy, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Analytics, and People.

If you thrive in ambiguity, can bring structure to complex multi-workstream programs, and have a bias toward action, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Program Planning & Execution
• Maintain the program timeline for Flexdrive AV Operating Readiness, tracking deliverables and dependencies across workstreams: Strategic Planning, Infrastructure, Analytics, People, Fleet Operations, Treasury, Finance, and Legal.
• Maintain the program's RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), surfacing cross-functional blockers with clear context for escalation.
• Support weekly leadership syncs and monthly deep-dive reviews, including preparation, presentation and follow-through.
• Translate upstream decisions (partner agreements, market selections, ) into operational requirements, updating the readiness roadmap accordingly.
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Serve as a connection point between workstream leads, helping ensure infrastructure timelines align with hiring plans, capital deployment schedules match construction milestones, and fleet operations readiness tracks to vehicle delivery dates.
• Act as the central hub across cross-functional internal teams supporting the program; drive alignment on priorities and decisions, elevate issues with the right context, and be accountable for resolution
• Coordinate with People and Operations to help sequence hiring, training, and certification programs ahead of vehicle arrivals.
• Work with FP&A and Treasury to track investment spend against the capital deployment schedule and flag variance early.
• Stakeholder Communication & Reporting
• Build and deliver clear status reporting to program leadership and workstream stakeholders.
• Ensure cross-functional stakeholders stay aligned on expectations, deliverables, and timelines throughout the program.
• Maintain market readiness scorecards that provide visibility into each market's progress against deployment milestones.
• Create and maintain program documentation including decision logs, meeting notes, and workstream status trackers.
• Process Support & Operational Excellence
• Help design and implement the program management operating model for AV readiness
• Identify and build process improvements across workstreams, using data to help optimize timelines and resource allocation.
• Build repeatable playbooks for market readiness that scale

Experience

• 5 years of experience in program management, business operations, or a similar cross-functional role, ideally within high-growth tech, fleet management, logistics, or infrastructure-heavy environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate operational detail into clear updates for cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills, with experience tracking timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple workstreams, and adapting whatever program management tools or frameworks the situation calls for
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where priorities and processes continue to evolve
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to organize effective working groups and resolve conflicts around program processes and goals.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to identify risks, quantify trade-offs, and recommend courses of action with imperfect information.
• Preferred
• Experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior leaders
• Experience with infrastructure buildout programs (depot construction, facility standup, real estate development).
• Background in capital intensive projects, fleet management, automotive, mobility, or autonomous vehicle operations.
• Experience managing programs that span domestic and international markets.
• Experience in a subsidiary or business unit operating within a larger corporate parent.

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $108,000 - $135,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.